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" Quotes and Sayings About the mind

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Accurately Becomes Destructive However
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
Begin Built Compassion Love
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When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Around Body Breathe Car
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
Confess Eyes Face Heart
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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Activities Dreams Interpretation Knowledge
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Above Bulk Iceberg Like
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Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

Being Death Down Get
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Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

Around Circles Forward He
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Exquisite Horror Impress Mind
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Is there no way out of the mind?
Mind Out Way
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I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Because Books Brother Brother And Sister
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
Above Contents Examining Mental
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True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.
Heart Mind Pocket True
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Knowledge Makes Materials Mind
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All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Crumbs Down Fall Feast
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Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Awareness Create Food Light
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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

Mind Never Satisfied
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

Goal Desire Mind First
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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

Mind Admirable Good Book
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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.

Box Closer Deadline Deadlines
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The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

Tale Passion Tell Mind
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

Between Committed Eye Fade
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Coat He Himself Mail
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As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Clears Complaint Joy Love
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

His Know Listen Man
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The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Able Between Communication Man
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
People Logic Philosophy Exposition
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Another Because Before Either
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Balance Bicycle Brain Effort
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Any Idea May Mind
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

Accept Best Content Craves
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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Age Things Mind
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Passion and strife bow down the mind.
Passion Strife Mind
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Age steals away all things, even the mind.

Age Mind Steal
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Filled Fire Mind Vessel
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Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife

Grandfather Space Mind Wife
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When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.

Mind Exhausted Image Invents
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Faced with the mind-surpassing grandeur of the universe, we cannot but admit that there is meaning which is greater than man.

Grandeur Universe Meaning Admit
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'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.

About Bodies Energies Everything
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The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind
Soul Heal Challenge Silence
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Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.

Beware Lust Corrupt Body
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I think the mindset is always to think that you are never going to play pain-free.

Always Going I Think Mindset
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Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Modern Skeptics Entrust Minds
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

Before Easier Mind Set
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

Character Contemplation Matter Mind
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Mind Richly Tapestry Distilled
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“If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don't act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don't, and the desire for it will go away.”

Want See God Kill
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“The mind has a dilemma. It is afraid of change, deeper change, yet the mind is attracted to life, which is change.

Mind Dilema Afraid Chang
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“The mind is like the wind. You’re trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it?”

Mind Wind Stop Dressed
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“Ignoring the mind is a beautiful disciplined practice. This is what many of the sages did. they ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its potency when it is ignored.

Ignoring Mind Beautiful Displine
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